In 2025, TP reviewers continue to make outstanding contributions to the peer review process. They demonstrated professional effort and enthusiasm in their reviews and provided comments that genuinely help the authors to enhance their work.
Hereby, we would like to highlight some of our outstanding reviewers, with a brief interview of their thoughts and insights as a reviewer. Allow us to express our heartfelt gratitude for their tremendous effort and valuable contributions to the scientific process.
January, 2025
Wang Chun Kwok, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
January, 2025
Wang Chun Kwok
Dr. Wang Chun Kwok Herbert is currently working as Clinical Assistant Professor in the University of Hong Kong. His research interests include airway diseases including asthma, bronchiectasis and chronic obstructive pulmonary diseases. He was awarded the Li Shu Fan Fellowship for Internal Medicine to support his study in phenotyping and therapeutics of airway diseases. He was also awarded competitive research grant to support his research in respiratory medicine. Dr. Kwok was awarded the APSR 2024:HKLF Professor Wah-kit Lam Young Investigator Award, travel grant to KATRDIC 2024, Outstanding Author of JTD 2024, APSR Travel Award to the JRS Annual Meeting 2024, Assembly Education Award in the 26th Congress of APSR 2022, best oral presentation in the 8th APRC(2022), APSR Teaching Library Award (2019), best Abstract of the Assembly in the 22nd Congress of APSR (2017) and Professor Wah-kit Lam Young Investigator Award 2017/2018 in recognition of his research work. Learn more about him here.
TP: Why do we need peer review?
Dr. Kwok: To ensure the research work is conducted appropriately, peer review is needed. The reviewer will first examine if the research question is appropriate. The reviewers will also make sure the methodology is correct and advise for revision if appropriate. The presentation of the results is equally important, which will be assessed in the peer-review process. Lastly, the conclusion should be appropriate based on the results, which the reviewers have the responsibility to check on. Overall, peer review is needed to ensure that the research article is of adequate quality.
TP: What do you regard as a constructive/destructive review?
Dr. Kwok: Constructive review shall include non-biased constructive comments aiming at pointing out the problems of the research and suggest for improvement. Destructive review is usually making personal biased comments which cannot help to improve the research at all, such as giving comments saying the work is unsatisfactory without clear reasons.
TP: Would you like to say a few words to encourage other reviewers who have been devoting themselves to advancing scientific progress behind the scene?
Dr. Kwok: Thanks for reviewing our works, which does not only improve the quality of the research, but also serves as a platform for us to have mutual communication and learn from each other.
(by Lareina Lim, Brad Li)
